D. O. Flynn Quotes

I've always believed clear-eyed sobriety was for the harder hearted.

If you're not busy living, you're dying.

No matter how bad you think you have it, there's always - always somebody who's got it way, way worse.

Be sure you positively identify your target before you pull the trigger.

Imperialism is an institution under which one nation asserts the right to seize the land or at least to control the government or resources of another people.

I spent every day just praying that I didn't look like a big dork on camera.

It’s humbling, to become the very thing you once mocked.

I want to be able to speak freely about what I believe. There's a lot of people who would actually like to be able to do that but, for whatever reason, they can't.

I can't think of anything more crushing than slowly, over time, realizing exactly how wrong you were about someone.

These code authorities could regulate production, quantities, qualities, prices, distribution methods, etc., under the supervision of the NRA. This was fascism.

When I give a lot of speeches, they're always on the fly. I mean, I know what I'm going to say roughly, but I do not - will not read.

Revenge is more wild, less calculated...deeply personal. Retribution is a punishment that is morally right and fully deserved. (Mitch Rapp)

Fascism is not the result of dictatorship.

Someone, I don't know who- it might have even been me- said, Any man at the age of twenty-five who is not a Communist has no heart: any man who is still is at the age of thirty-five has no head.

It is habit for me to discount myself before somebody else does it for me. Better to get in the first lick

Sometimes when you're just thrown into something, you are more ready for it than when you have time to think it over and get nervous about it.

I do care about the direction of America.

I allow myself to be understood as a colorful fragment in a drab world.

I felt like an impostor, taking all that money for reciting ten or twelve lines of nonsense a day.

There are no really new stories anymore.

To pretend to be calm is to be calm, in a way.

It was surprising that you could spend hours in the middle of the night pretending things were OK, and know in thirty seconds of daylight that that simply wasn't so.

Don't be discouraged - every relationship you have is a failure, until you find the right one.

Give me a man with a little fight in him, a man who calls me on my bullshit. (But who also kind of likes my bullshit.)

All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first.

My father was never anti-anything in our house.

I love fast cars... and to go too fast in them.

I am not biased against the rich because they are rich, but the most lively people are those without money who would like to have some

Has every oyster a different taste?

I am on the side of the underdog except when I am on the side of the rich

Problems always start long before you really, really see them.

Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.

It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.

A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt.

The Communists were interested in getting into key positions as union officers, statisticians, economists, etc., in order to utilize the apparatus of the unions to promote the cause of revolution.

I'm afraid of the dark, so I have a lot of night-lights.

But Fascism cannot continue in a modified form.

I love children and I love men, but I can't commit to either for the rest of my life.

She comes from the Midwest. She had me at a very young age and raised me on her own. She's a very hard worker.

The line between fascism and Fabian socialism is very thin. Fabian socialism is the dream. Fascism is Fabian socialism plus the inevitable dictator.

That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way?

I've dated men my age, younger than me and older. The only difference is the young ones are quicker at taking out the garbage.

My doctors warned me repeatedly that if you don't stay positive, you don't do well.

just let Mitch be Mitch

To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.

People love talking, and I have never been a huge talker. I carry on an inner monologue, but the words often don't reach my lips.

But Tommy Lee Jones is just smooth. He's just the real deal. I'm captivated by him because there's so little of that in Hollywood, and he just embodies it.

I think the institution of marriage is a great idea, but for me it's just an idea.

I love receiving fan mail.

I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere.